Accelerating Microsoft® Excel® 2010 with Windows® HPC Server 2008 R2

This white paper discusses different scenarios where Windows® HPC Server 2008 R2 can integrate with Excel 2010, which may help run Excel 2010 workbooks and critical user-defined functions (UDFs) significantly faster by enabling their execution in a Windows high-performance computing (HPC) cluster.

Microsoft® Excel® is a critical tool for business. As calculations and models become more complex, they require increasing amounts of time to execute on a desktop or portable computer. This white paper discusses different scenarios where Windows® HPC Server 2008 R2 can integrate with Excel 2010, which may help run Excel 2010 workbooks and critical user-defined functions (UDFs) significantly faster by enabling their execution in a Windows high-performance computing (HPC) cluster.